History belongs above all to the man... who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.

The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

Knowledge-full, unfettered knowledge of its own heritage, of freedom's enemies, of the whole world of men and ideas-this knowledge is a free people's surest strength.

History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men pursuing their purposes.